247: Plot Twist: How Setbacks Can Guide You to Your True Path with Mindfulness Pioneer, Sharon Salzberg

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Light Watkins

Self-improvement, Religion & Spirituality, Society & Culture, Education

4.9 • 960 Ratings

🗓️ 11 October 2024

⏱️ 31 minutes

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In this bite-sized episode of The Light Watkins Show, renowned mindfulness teacher Sharon Salzberg shares the incredible story of how a college trip to India completely changed her life. Light Watkins takes listeners back to that pivotal moment when Sharon, a young student with a passion for meditation, encountered several twists and turns that ultimately led her to discover her true calling.During this episode, Sharon recounts her journey, which started with meeting Tibetan Lama Trungpa Rinp...

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0:00.0	I did over hear a conversation at a restaurant saying that there was going to be an international
0:07.9	Hoffa Yoga conference in New Delhi and I thought, oh that's it, I'll go there and that's real find a teacher.
0:15.0	And I went there and it was like a nearly completely dismal experience where the low point was when these
0:20.6	Yogis and Swamis were pushing and shoving against each other to be the first to grab the
0:26.2	microphone and speak and I thought, oh great, this is hopeless, but also at that conference a young man
0:32.3	named Dan Goldman who we tend to know these days
0:35.6	is the author of Emotional Intelligence
0:38.0	all these years later.
0:39.4	But Dan was giving a talk at that conference.
0:42.5	He was at the time a graduate student in psychology.
0:45.6	He was studying meditation.
0:47.8	And somehow he ended up giving a talk at this conference.
0:50.4	And he mentioned at the end of the talk that he was on his way to this town called
0:54.4	Padgaia in India where there was going to be an intensive 10-day immersion
1:00.3	course into meditation and it was very practical and you don't have to join
1:07.2	anything you didn't have to reject anything else exactly what I've been
1:10.8	looking for and I thought oh that's it that's what they
1:14.4	need.
1:16.4	A friend welcome back to the Light Watkins show.
1:22.6	I'm Light Watkins and I have conversations
1:24.8	with ordinary folks just like you and me
1:27.5	who take an extraordinary leaps of faith
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